Collaborate Disseminate
A former Microsoft employee has written a lengthy post about the history of Windows Mobile, noting with regret that the software giant should have owned the mobile market. That sounds pleasant. But it was never going to happen.
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The Office 365 team at Microsoft continues its torrid update pace this month, with a slew of improvements that hit across virtually all of the client platforms that they support.
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Folks, this one is special. If you’re a Windows phone user and you care at all about photography, be sure to check out the free appVinci. It’s basically Prisma, but on Windows and with better performance. Note: AppRaisin is a social Windows app news service where a Windows enthusiasts decide which app and game news […]
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In this month’s look at Windows device usage, AdDuplex again examines the uptake for Windows 10 Mobile in particular, and at how the Anniversary Update is spreading across both phones and PCs.
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Amazon this week shipped a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app version of its core store experience, delighting users who had previously mourned the death of its previous Windows 8 and Windows phone apps. But this app is really just the Amazon web site in an app wrapper. Does that matter?
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Microsoft has released its second “Redstone 2”-era build to Windows Insiders on the Fast ring, and unlike the previous build, this on is available on both PC and Mobile.
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Tech tidbits from around the web: Groove gets another nice update for Windows Insiders, Gears of War gets a gorgeous 4K trailer, the Lumia 650 is on sale too, and the HDHomeRun DVR app is now available now on Xbox One.
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Two weeks after Microsoft delivered the Anniversary Update to Windows 10 for PCs, tablets, HoloLens, and IoT, the firm has begun the roll out on Windows phones too. That said, you could still be in for a long wait.
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For over two weeks now, I’ve secretly made a major change to my daily workflow and have been using as many Microsoft mobile apps on PC, tablet, and smartphone as possible. And my relative levels of success speak volumes, I think, to the state of Microsoft’s mobile efforts here in mid-2016.
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Tech tidbits from around the web: an interesting follow-up from Alan Mendelevich, Minecraft for Windows 10 now works with the Oculus Rift VR headset, the Lumia 950 and 950 XL get permanent price cuts, Windows 10 earns the respect of security experts, m… Continue reading Thurrott Daily: August 15